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A Bit Fitter

I’d speculatively asked for a Fitbit for xmas, knowing that it was both a pricey gift and a bit of an unnecessary luxury. It turned out that it wasn’t due out in this country until early January anyway, but I was lucky enough to get one all the same.

Given my preoccupation with recording statistics from my life, the Fitbit is like catnip for me. Having every step, every flight of stairs, and every calorie burned, tracked and graphed on my Fitbit profile page is compulsive stuff. Just turning a mundane lunch time walk into a chance to improve my daily score makes it enough like a game to motivate me to get out there.

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Challenges for 2012

Starting the year off on a positive note, I thought I’d list the challenges I’m attempting in 2012. I’m doing this in the knowledge that I wasn’t successful with some of those I set myself for 2011, yet managed the cycling challenge I threw in later on. I don’t know whether that makes me more realistic or not, but I intend to have a bigger spread of challenges this year all the same.

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Challenging everything

If you know me well enough, you’ll know I like to give myself challenges. These can range from something ultimately trivial – such as collecting wrist bands, to something exceptionally trivial – such as not listening to Bohemian Rhapsody for a year.

Sometimes they can have important health benefits, like doing more cycling or switching to soya milk. Other times they can be to help me learn something, like my abandoned places photography challenge which is both ongoing and designed to help me get better at taking pictures. Much of the time they’re just for fun, but if I can mix it up and improve myself in some way, so much the better.

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